Its orientation was towards a grassroots fusion of street knowledge with a rediscovered deep leftist political ideology. Cleaver epitomized a form of thought leadership manifesting itself in this whirlwind period of Black radicalism which had wrestled ideological dominance back from the sanitized presentation of the centrist Black clergy and political class. He was possessed of a rich, raw eloquence and the ability to manipulate profanity as a form of punctuation. Soul On Ice is the seminal collection of social criticism by Eldridge Cleaver framing his observance of the drastic transformation occurring during the late 60’s as nonviolent civil disobedience gave rise to a vitriolic demand for Black Power.
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